1977 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

1977 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

Copa de Campeones Concacaf
Dates	17 April 1977 till 18 February 1978
Final positions
Champions	América
Runners-up	Robinhood

The 1977 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 13th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's club champion of association football in the CONCACAF region and was played from 17 April 1977 till 18 February 1978.

The teams were split in 3 zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean), each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament, where the winners of the North and Central zones played a semi-final to decide who was going to play against the Caribbean champion in the final. All the matches in the tournament were played under the home/away match system.

América from Mexico won the final, and became for the first time CONCACAF champion in their history.

North American Zone

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
América	w/o	New York Inter-Giuliana

• New York Inter-Giuliana withdrew
• América advances to the CONCACAF Semi-Final.

Central American Zone

First Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Águila	1 - 3	Municipal	0 - 2	1 - 1
Diriangén	w/o	Barrio México
Saprissa	w/o	Real España

• Motagua on a Bye.
• Barrio México did not have match dates communicated to them by CONCACAF and forfeited.
• Real España withdrew.
• Águila, Diriangén, Saprissa advances to the second round.

Second Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Municipal	16 - 2	Diriangén	13 - 1	3 - 1
Saprissa	w/o	Motagua

• Motagua withdrew.
• Municipal and Saprissa advance to the third round.

Third Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Municipal	1 - 3	Saprissa	1 - 2	0 - 1

• Saprissa advances to the CONCACAF Semi-Final.

Caribbean Zone

First Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Defence Force	0 - 4	Violette	0 - 2	0 - 2
Pele	3 - 4	Voorwaarts	2 - 0	1 - 4
Robinhood	6 - 0	YMCA	5 - 0	1 - 0
TECSA	w/o	Victory

• Victory withdrew.
• Violette and Robinhood advanced to the Second Round.
• Voorwaarts on a bye to the Third Round.
• TECSA on a bye to the Fourth Round.

Second Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Violette	0 - 1	Robinhood	0 - 0	0 - 1

• Robinhood advanced to the third round.

Third Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Voorwaarts	0 - 2	Robinhood	0 - 1	0 - 1

• Robinhood advanced to the fourth round.

Fourth Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
TECSA	2 - 4	Robinhood	1 - 1	1 - 3

• Robinhood advanced to the CONCACAF Champions'Cup Final.

CONCACAF Final Series

Semi-Final

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
América	w/o	Saprissa

• Saprissa withdrew.
• América advances to the CONCACAF Final.

Final

1978-01-15

Robinhood	0 – 1	América
		da Costa 49'

Paramaribo, Suriname

1978-01-17

Robinhood	1 – 1	América
Emanuelson		Kiesse 70'

Paramaribo, Suriname

• América wins the CONCACAF Champions' Cup, 2 - 1 on aggregate.

Champion

CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1977 Champions
América First title

References

• RSSSF Site